Sunday, March 19, 2017

Danny Rand—Iron Fist

The final Defender arrives! I just finished Iron Fist and I wanted to pump this entry out before school picks back up for me again—won't have time to work as much when that happens.

I've also made minor adjustments to Daredevil, given that he's not nearly as talented a fighter as Iron Fist (DD's skillset is more focused around being intimidating, lawyering, and noticing everything).

Danny Rand was born to the billionaire founders of Rand Enterprises. Raised in a sheltered upbringing in New York with his friends Joy and Ward Meachum, Danny was a good-hearted kid, even through Ward's bullying. Unfortunately, on a family trip to China, Danny's plane went down in the Himalayas, killing both of his parents. Danny was found by a group of mysterious monks, who took him back to the mystical city of Kun'Lun.

The monks there trained him, particularly Lei Kung, the Thunderer, in the mystical martial arts. Danny was also taught to keep his emotions in check, though he seemed to have trouble pushing emotions from his heart in times of stress, and his penchant for trouble-making with his best friend Davos resulted in many stories. However, having learned the art of zen combat, Danny was chosen to partake in the Trial of Shou-Lao the Undying, an enormous dragon beast. Danny subdued the beast and plunged his fists into its molten heart—a tattoo of Shou-Lao burned itself onto his chest, and Danny became the Iron Fist, sworn enemy of the Hand.

15 years after his plane went down, the gates of Kun'Lun opened once again, allowing Danny to escape into the world and make his way back to New York. His antics in entering the Rand Enterprises headquarters, however, complicated matters, with Ward branding him as an insane person trying to steal the Rand name and submitting Danny to an asylum. Eventually, though, things were ironed out and Danny was reinstated within the company, and immediately started driving profits down with idealistic and unwise business decisions, much to the chagrin of Ward and Joy.

In this time, Danny met Colleen Wing, a martial artist in Chinatown, and Claire Temple, one of her students, and began to work with them to uncover a heroin manufacturer by the docks. This turned out to be run by Madame Gao and the Hand, who were using it to gain an economic foothold in the city. Danny also found out that Harold Meachum, his father's best friend, was still alive, albeit through poor life decisions and a deal with the Hand. Danny did his best to apprehend the Hand and save as many as he could, but when Colleen was poisoned by a fight with the Hand (and Danny discovered the healing capabilities of the Iron Fist), they ended up in an installation with an imprisoned Gao, only to find out that Colleen was a member of a different faction of the Hand all along.

Escaping with Davos, who only recently found him in New York, they retreated for Danny to recharge his chi and destroy this rogue faction of the Hand with the assistance of Colleen, but not before Ward and Joy were put into serious danger at the hand of Bakuto, this Hand faction's leader. After dealing with this threat, Danny discovered that Harold Meachum might have engineered the plane accident to kill his parents, and worked with Ward and Joy (newly on his side in light of the revelation) to defeat Harold (with the killing blow attributed to Ward's gun).

Danny offered to bring Colleen back to Kun'Lun, but at the gates, they discovered that an attack had occured and the gates were shut. They will likely pick up here in the Defenders later this year.

Power Stunts:

Deflection (4): –6 to hit with ranged attacks. Contingent on a successful armor. Danny uses the Iron Fist to deflect a bullet against Harold in the series' climax.

Explode (5): Damage 4d8, Large Burst Template. Contingent on a successful armor. Danny uses the Iron Fist to slam into the ground, causing massive amounts of damage to the rooms and security officers around him.

Parry +4 (4): During Danny's tournament against the Hand, he goes full zen and effortlessly blocks hits from his opponent.

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So, it was a quick and dirty Savaging, and boy I don't think I've ever seen anyone with a Persuasion that low (d4–4 with his Outsider modifiers). The Iron Fist, however, is quite powerful, and will only grow moreso as he gains Experience, and his status as a Rising Star allows him to gain even more uses of his chi as time goes on. Personally, I'm thorouhgly interested to see what he ends up with in the future.

Leave your questions, comments, and complaints about the show's weak writing and choreography below. Don't be too harsh, though; it was mediocre, not total garbage.
—DoctorBoson

It's not very accurate to the comics, no. Comics Iron Fist is a lot more well-trained and very powerful. That said, I'd ask that you not link to sketchy sites to watch things; it's available on Netflix already.

Will you be posting the other Guardians of the Galaxy? Or any more of the Defenders/Netflix heroes and villains? Your work looks very thoroughly thought out and well built. I'd love to see what else you come up with! I'm actually looking to launch a Savage Worlds blog of my own in the near future. Your blog was one of my inspirations!Thanks for the posts and looking forward to more!

Aww, thank you! I'm actually working on a *big* overhaul to pretty much everything on the blog (particularly because I wasn't quite satisfied with Iron Man, he was missing the idea that his suit was more of a vehicle and didn't account for the power consumption), but once I'm done with that we'll have a lot of posts coming in. As far as the Defenders and Guardians, we'll be seeing more of them after Defenders comes out! Now that Guardians 2 was released I have more to work with for all of them and I'm looking forward to getting everything as accurate as possible. Learn a little more about the system with every character I put together.

Best of luck with your blog! Post it to the Savage Worlds G+ or Discord and I'll be sure to take a look.

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For those that are unaware, the MCU is the collection of movies and shows beginning with Iron Man back in 2008 produced in-house by Marvel. This includes The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Daredevil, among other works.

Again, to reiterate from the Ground Rules post, this will only be pulling from sources canon to the MCU—including some of the tie-in comics—but I won't be pulling from the comics universes, nor from movies produced by Fox or Sony, or any of the DC-verse (depending on how the cast ends up, I may end up creating their own separate Savageverse blog as well). If I miss a character (somehow) that you think deserves a spot on the blog, let me know!

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